WORKS BY THE AUTHOR OF 



'SAM SLICK, THE CLOCKMAKER.' 



Each in One Volume, Frontispiece, and Uniformly Bound, Price 5s. 



NATURE AND HUMAN NATURE. 



"We enjoy our old friend's company with unabated relish. This work is a rattling 

 miscellany of sharp sayings, stories, and hard hits. It is full of fun and fancy." Athenaeum. 



" Since Sam's first work he has written nothing so fresh, racy, and genuinely humorous as 

 this. Every line of it tells in some way or other instructively, satirically, jocosely, or 

 wittily. Admiration of Sam's mature talents, and laughter at his droll yarns, constantly 

 alternate as with unhalting avidity we peruse the work. The Clockmaker proves himself 

 the fastest time-killer a-going." Observer. 



WISE SAWS AND MODERN INSTANCES. 



" This delightful book will be the most popular, as beyond doubt it is the best, of all the 

 author's admirable works " Standard. 



" The book before us will be read and laughed over. Its quaint and racy dialect will 

 please some readers its abundance of yarns will amuse others. There is something to 

 suit readers of every humour." Athenaeum. 



" The humour of Sam Slick is inexhaustible. He is ever and everywhere a welcome 

 visitor ; smiles greet his approach, and wit and wisdom hang upon his tongue. We pro- 

 mise our readers a great treat from the perusal of these ' Wise Saws,' which contain a 

 world of practical wisdom, and a treasury of the richest fun." Morning Post. 



THE OLD JUDGE ; OR, LIFE IN A COLONY. 



" By common consent this work is regarded as one of the raciest, truest to life, most 

 humorous, and most interesting works which have proceeded from the prolific pen of its 

 author. We all know what shrewdness of observation, what power of graphic descrip- 

 tion, what natural resources of drollery, and what a happy method of hitting off the 

 broader characteristics of the life he reviews, belong to Judge Haliburton. We have all 

 those qualities here ; but they are balanced by a serious literary purpose, and are employed 

 in the communication of information respecting certain phases of colonial experience 

 which impart to the work an element of sober utility." Sunday Times. 



TRAITS OF AMERICAN HUMOUR. 



" No man has done more than the facetious Judge Haliburton, through the mouth of the 

 inimitable ' Sam, 1 to make the old parent country recognise and appreciate her queer 

 transatlantic progeny. His present collection of comic stories and laughable traits is a 

 budget of fun, full of rich specimens of American humour." Globe. 



" Yankeeism, portrayed in its raciest aspect, constitutes the contents of these superla- 

 tively entertaining sketches. The work embraces the most varied topics political parties, 

 religious eccentricities, the flights of literature, and the absurdities of pretenders to learn- 

 ing, all come in for their share of satire ; while we have specimens of genuine American 

 exaggerations and graphic pictures of social and domestic life as it is. The work will 

 have a wide circulation." John Bull. 



THE AMERICANS AT HOME. 



"In thin highly entertaining work we are treated to another cargo of capital stories 

 from the inexhaustible store of our Yankee friend. In the volume before us he dishes up, 

 with his accustomed humour and terseness of style, a vast number of tales, none more 

 entertaining than another, and all of them graphically illustrative of the ways and man- 

 ners of brother Jonathan. The anomalies of American law, the extraordinary adventures 

 incident to life in the backwoods, and, above all, the peculiarities of American society, are 

 variously, powerfully, and, for the most part, amusingly exemplified." John Bull. 



" In the picturesque delineation of character, and the felicitous portraiture of national 

 features, no writer equals Judge Haliburton, and the subjects embraced in the present 

 delightful book call forth, in new and vigorous exercise, his peculiar powers. 'The 

 Americans at Home ' will not be less popular than any of his previous works." Post, 



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